Denver,Colorado,United States of America October 24,2012--Outskirts Press,Inc.has published Firefighters and Highrises:Bridging the Gap by Matt Stuckey.The author's most recent book to date is a 7 x 10 casebound in the ...
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Joanna Shields has resigned from her role as European boss of Facebook to become chief executive of the Tech City Investment Organisation (TCIO). Joanna Shields will join as the chief executive of TCIO in January 2013. The government ...
Google's Android mobile operating system(OS)is under siege by attackers,with malware and information stealing adware targeting the platform up 483%in the last quarter. While Apple's relatively rigorous approach to vetting apps before ...
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Dries Buytaert started open source content management system Drupal as a part-time hobby in Belgium while he was completing his PhD in 2000. He founded Acquia in 2007 to make a profit from Drupal products. "For the first seven years, ...
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Oracle is pushing its combined hardware and software product range as a way for CIOs to avoid costly consultant fees. Speaking in the UK, Oracle president Mark Hurd, said open systems were more costly because they were not ...
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Infoworld-In releasing updates to its client and server Ubuntu Linux distributions today,Canonical will enable users to turn off a search option in its client product that has raised some eyebrows over privacy issues.A ...
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There is a fundamental flaw in Salesforce.com's terms and conditions that puts customers at risk of losing access to services in the event of a third-party software vendor going out of business, according to voice provider Resilient ...
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The government has launched gov.uk as part of its Digital by Default agenda, to provide a single point of access to government information and services. The site, which has replaced the Directgov and Business Link services, forms a key ...
Amazon may be entering the semiconductor business.The company is in talks with TI about buying TI's wireless chip business. TI supplies the chip-sets for Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet.It is thought that TI's wireless chip business could be ...
IDG News Service-Facebook is rethinking the way it stores data to cope with the seven petabytes of new photos the social network's users upload every month. As the number of photos grows,Facebook needs to find cheaper,less power-hungry ...
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IDG News Service - Citrix Systems has released an enhanced GoToMyPC app for Android devices allowing anyone with an Android phone or tablet, including Amazon's Kindle Fire family, to access their Internet-connected Mac or PC over a mobile ...
Running app Runtastic is using Compuware Dynatrace software from Compuware to ensure the software performs properly. The cloud-hosted mobile application supports over 1,000 devices.It provides sports data such as elapsed ...
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Hosting companies purporting to offer cloud services are offering the same services that they were 10 years ago,but simply marketing them as cloud instead in a bid to make money,claims Flexiant founder Tony Lucas. "If you were to believe ...
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Companies are wasting tens of thousands of pounds–sometimes hundreds of thousands–on purchasing cloud services they either don't need or don't even know they are purchasing. Further reading Google says security is better in ...
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By using a system that allows Flipkart's engineers to launch multiple versions of its website in real time, IT drives a new level of innovation. The Organization: Despite a slow start, e-commerce in India has grown by 70 percent ...
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